Dr Martin Luther King Jr. BBC Radio Package 5

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Dr Martin Luther King Jr. BBC Radio Package 5

Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream Speech is known around the world, but you can't say the same about a speech he gave in Newcastle in 1967 - after being given an honorary doctorate by the University.

We had such a positive reaction when we broadcast some of that footage that we thought it deserved a wider audience and took the tape to the states.

Our reporter Murphy Cobbing has already played it to a radio talk-show host, a senior Washington Diplomat and the Mayor of Atlanta - But now it's time to take it into King's back yard....